Seattle Mag
Must List: Comicon Comes to Town, ‘Lizard Boy’ on Stage
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Geek OutEmerald City Comicon Takes Over(3/27 to 3/29) If you weren’t able to secure tickets to the annual cavalcade of comics fans, never fear, you can still witness the dazzling array of far-out costumes when passing anywhere near the Washington State Convention Center. Here, we take an insider’s look at the high-energy, highly animated…
Kick Off Spring with These 4 Local Flower Fests
Flowers, flowers everywhere!
Spring is finally here and with the warm weather comes a burning desire to get outside. If you’ve been bottled up through the long winter months, you’re likely looking for any excuse to spend your days off exploring Seattle’s many outdoor activities. You can pack a lunch and have a picnic in the park, but…
Recipe of the Week: Pan-Fried Mussels with Lovage Aioli
Whip up this tasty starter with the underutilized seasonal herb Lovage
Poppy chef and owner Jerry Traunfeld discussed his favorite herb of the season in the April issue of Seattle Magazine. Here, he’s provided a delectable recipe using the favored herb, lovage, and pairing it with mussels—an equally choice crop of the season—to create a delicious dish suitable to start any fête of the season. Pan-Fried MusselsIngredients 2 pounds large-sized fresh…
Bellevue Lands W Hotel, Drivers Needed for Seniors
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Hotel news: Bellevue has nabbed a W Hotel as part of its $1.2 million expansion of The Bellevue Collection. Slated to open in spring 2017, Starwood Hotels’ W Bellevue will feature 245 guestrooms (25 of those will be suites and one will be W’s Presidential-style Extreme Wow Suite), three restaurants and bars and more than…
7 Ways to Pretty Up Your Home for Spring
Treasures and trinkets from local shops to breathe new life into your abode
Can you feel it? This hopeful season always carries with it a sense of renewal and expansiveness. Throw open your curtains, sweep away the dust bunnies and spruce up your decor with cheerful home accents that celebrate the revival going on outdoors. 1. Seattle’s Gnosis Picture Archive offers a multitude of reproduction natural history and scientific…
Easter Egg Hunts in Seattle: The Hunt is On!
Where to hunt, hop and gather around Seattle this Easter
The Easter holiday, complete with the appearance of a giant bunny, is fast approaching, and public venues throughout Seattle are pulling out all the stops with spring egg hunts for sharp-eyed youngsters. For a weekend full of Easter-related fun, we’ve rounded up an array of egg hunts and other exciting events around town that shall…
Cupcake Royale Owner and Pastry Chef Launch 3 New Ventures
Donut pop-up, chef ice cream collaboration and classy marijuana cookies are all new this spring
Cupcake Royale founder/owner Jody Hall and her head pastry chef/chief operations officer Nicki Kerbs have been busy. Adding ice cream to the now 12-year-old cupcake chain in 2012 and expanding Cupcake Royale to six branches in 2013 was all well and good, but Hall and Kerbs, it seems, were just getting started. This spring, the…
The Best Local Spots for Cuisine from Nepal, Indonesia, Laos and More
Expand your horizons beyond Thai, Mexican and Chinese
BALLARD[Cuban] Geo’s Cuban and Creole In the shadow of massive waterfront restaurants Ray’s and Anthony’s sits Geo’s, another eponymous eatery, but without the Olympic Mountain view. The Cuban joint, where you order at the counter, doesn’t need to rely on fancy sights; the sandwiches speak for themselves: pressed Cubanos stuffed with roasted pork, sliced ham,…
Legal Weed is for Sale, but it’s Barely Affecting Tourism
Recreational marijuana is booming, so why is cannabis tourism lagging behind?
Explaining that he has had a heart attack and needs medicine for the pain, Dimitrias Manoulidis raises a fat, smoking joint and takes a deep drag. Frankly, he was not what I had in mind when I envisioned what our state’s newest tourists would look like. A stout, 60-something, ruggedly handsome, mustached man in a…
Is Seattle on a Levy Binge?
Why Knute Berger is feeling the early stages of levy fatigue
In our bi-monthly Seattlemag.com column, Knute Berger–who writes regularly for Seattle Magazine and Crosscut.com and is a frequent pundit on KUOW–takes an in-depth look at some of the highly topical and sometimes polarizing issues in our city. Seattle is booming economically, but as we know, it’s a haves and have-nots economy. A major dilemma is…
BadWill Market, Rover Raises $25M, Juno Relocating & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Rover Rolls On. Rover.com, the Seattle-based pet-sitting company, just raised $25 million in funding from Palo Alto-based Crossover Ventures, The Puget Sound Business Journal said Thursday. This brings the startup company’s funding to more than $50 million total. In the past year, Rover doubled its employees to 80, increased revenue by 500 percent, and now…